Launch Category
VUPD Site Moves to Omni
Jun. 2, 2015— Recently the Vanderbilt University Police Department site made the jump from WordPress to Omni. This was done in an effort to consolidate all websites maintained by VUPD under one content management system, to facilitate easier upkeep. Sgt. Jon-Michael McDaniel worked closely with Web Communications to migrate the content from WordPress to...
Reliability and Risk Engineering Management
Mar. 5, 2015—The multidisciplinary Reliability and Risk Engineering and Management Studies project is the first in the world to study and develop integrated multidisciplinary computational and experimental approaches to assessing and managing risk and reliability. Moving this site into OmniUpdate makes the maintenance much easier for the clients, and gave us the change to design it to...
Undergraduate Research at Vanderbilt
Feb. 12, 2015— We worked closely with the Office of the Provost to launch a new website celebrating undergraduate research at Vanderbilt, in part to support the new strategic emphasis on the immersion experience for undergraduate students at the university. Undergraduate Research at Vanderbilt is designed to expose students to the scope of research opportunities available at the...
VINSE: Vanderbilt Institute of Nanoscale Science and Engineering
Jan. 14, 2015—VINSE’s move into OmniUpdate includes a cleaner design, easier to use back-end apps, a simplified news feed from a my.vanderbilt site, an events feed from the University Calendar and much more. It was a pleasure working with Sarah Satterwhite and Ben Schmidt on this project.
Communication of Science and Technology Program move into Omni
Jan. 7, 2015—We worked with Professor David Weintraub to move this site out of Dreamweaver and into OmniUpdate, and gave it a redesign in the process. This Communication of Science and Technology Program provides students a strong background in both science/engineering and communication/humanities; we’re happy to assist them in their goals of communicating the complexities of science to...
Department of Economics moves to Omni
Dec. 13, 2014—The Department of Economics in the College of Arts and Science was maintained through Dreamweaver, with a template that matched the standard university web branding. We migrated the site to OmniUpdate, where it will be much easier for their staff to maintain. We also moved their faculty, staff and student pages into a database.
Master of Liberal Arts & Science moves to Omni
Dec. 12, 2014—The Master of Liberal Arts & Science (MLAS) is a graduate program for Nashville’s adult learners. We moved their site out of Dreamweaver and into OmniUpdate, making it easier for them to update their content. Moving this site, and all the sites we work with, into a content management system such as Omni also brings...
WebComm assists Registrar with lookup for course renumbering
Dec. 12, 2014—The University Registrar is in the process of renumbering all courses at Vanderbilt. They requested an interface for faculty and students to be able to look up an old course number and easily find the new number. We built a simple database tool that allows the user to start typing in the search box and...
VUIT Products and Services Lookup
Dec. 7, 2014—We worked with VUIT on simplifying their products and services lookup. VUIT provides many services to the university — and many are known by several different names — and fall into various support groups. We built a simple database that houses all the service/product information, keywords, and groups to which the service might be associated...
Summer Sessions website transitions to Omni
Nov. 22, 2014—Vanderbilt students attend Summer Sessions to get ahead with credits toward graduation, to catch up on a rigorous subject, or to explore a topic that doesn’t fit in their regular academic year schedule. Undergraduates from other universities are also encouraged to attend summer classes at Vanderbilt. Admissions information, academic policies and more can be found...
Children’s Hospital Expansion Campaign launches in OmniUpdate
Oct. 18, 2014—The Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt launched a $30 million expansion campaign in 2014. This campaign seeks to build and expand on the current Children’s Hospital, offering more beds to children in need around the region. Part of the launch included the creation of a new website, housed within the current Vanderbilt Giving...
Divinity School Refreshed
Oct. 18, 2014—The Divinity School went live with a cleaner, more streamlined homepage mid-October. Blog is powered by their VDS Voices my.vanderbilt.edu website Upcoming Events is powered by the University Calendar Highlighting the message from the Dean each month